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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Rebecca Miller
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Actors:
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Daniel Day-Lewis,
Susanna Thompson,
Ryan McDonald,
Camilla Belle,
Catherine Keener,
Paul Dano,
Jason Lee,
Jena Malone,
Beau Bridges
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)100.5
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Plot Summary:
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Jack (Daniel Heyday-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside circle, but any longer Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions thither the days ahead. A the human race who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack today rages at those who do not cut his concerns, developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing district on the edge of his holdings. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keene... r) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to fare with them, Rose feels betrayed and the employment very soon becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating disorder. As everything flies alibi of rule, Jack finds himself trapped in an unimaginable position and is forced to take action.Read more Less
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Mixed feelings.
A complex story exploring the emotional relationship between father and daughter isolated from the 'rat race'.
Day Lewis plays Jack, a father with good intentions turned bad in his attempt to protect his daughter from the corrupt outside world, they live self sufficiantly on a now deserted ex commune, ironically funded by Lewis's inheritance. However this supposed idyllic lifestyle has resulted in creating a naive, inquisitive sociopath in his daughter who demonically resents the intrusion of Jack's previously unknown girlfriend to the island with her two adolescant sons resulting in psychotic chaos and jealousy. Jack has chronic heart failure and was intending to create a new family to look after daughter Rose when he is gone. The plan backfires catastrophically.
Worth a watch
An interesting film; not one to watch if you want an easy ride or lots of action, but some good characterisation and fine acting led by Mr. Day-Lewis.
Leaves you with something to think about; a good one for those who like films about people and relationships that aren't the usual Hollywood shallow type.
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The
Todd McCarthyA Scottish countercultural idealist who years back helped found a commune on a sparsely populated U.S. Eastern seaboard island, Jack Slavin (Day-Lewis) by 1986 has seen everyone leave the compound except for his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has allowed Rose very little contact with the outside world, homeschooling her, allowing no television or other cultural contamination and generally considering her a prize exception to the general decline in human standards.
Emotionally, they could scarcely be more connected, and physically perhaps are a shade too close for comfort. Jack has put all of himself into making Rose the blossoming woman she is becoming, and Rose reciprocates by insisting she'd want to die if anything happened to her dad, w...
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The
Fortgang And it came to pass that Daniel Prime-Lewis, the most deep and uncompromising actor of his epoch, did walk among us again. In case you need reminding - and given that The Ballad Of Jack And Rose is only his fourth obscure in 10 years, you may do - in My Smashing Launderette (1985), My Left Foot (1989), The Model Of The Mohicans (1992) and Gangs Of New York (2002), Day-Lewis didn't principled jostle the envelope, he steamed it open, rewrote the line and posted it on to a getting one's hands of his own devising. If you needed an actor to go d‚mod‚ there and colonise the zone, nothing could match him. Here we find Day-Lewis in his second of the new millennium, script and managing politesse of his partner Rebecca Miller, daughter of the late ...
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